Burnout often stems from a lack of purpose and agency, not just workload. Empowering teams with meaningful tasks and autonomy fosters motivation and connection to their work.
If burnout was a natural byproduct of working too much (or too hard, or for too many hours), we’d see every founder/C-level suffering from it.
Oh, a comedy piece! Well deserved sarcasm aside, that bit only tends to be true to small and maybe medium companies, where the top isn’t an impenetrable ivory tower.
the real energy drain is when they ask themselves: Why am I doing this?
Because they have to eat and pay their bills, that is literally the only thing keeping people doing the soul crushing shit thrown at them.
Oh, a comedy piece! Well deserved sarcasm aside, that bit only tends to be true to small and maybe medium companies, where the top isn’t an impenetrable ivory tower.
Because they have to eat and pay their bills, that is literally the only thing keeping people doing the soul crushing shit thrown at them.
My team at work delivered a feature that will save us 18 million a year. They rewarded us by firing half the team.
See now it’s saving 20 million /s